Posted on 10/29/2020 9:01:18 AM PDT by Signalman
Car tune up explained and if your car really needs one or not, myth busted with Scotty Kilmer. Older cars actually needed to be tuned up, but newer cars don't really need it. The way modern car engines are designed removes the need for a tune up
This thread is so retarded! ;^)
Get a millennial a timing light for Christmas just to see the look on their face
dwell, timing, points??
Are you folks trying to spark come controversy?
Just don’t get a tune-up from a cop.
You must, like me, do a lot of highway driving
My 17 Jetta with 95,200 miles still has 50% pad life left.
Sadly I must, I must.
Working from home is doable sometimes but things pile up.
Yes. TDC, piston top dead center.
All cars these days do come with a manual. I suggest you read it and pay attention to the manufacturer's recommendations of service and replacement intervals of components and fluids and you'll be fine.
Triple carburetors; looks like a whole lot of back and forth there to get it right. ;D
My dad drove a super modified during the late 50s and early 60s. He and his friend (salvage yard owner) rebuilt the engine every weekend (’48 Ford flathead, V8, maybe?). If I remember correctly, the valve adjustments had to be done from the side—little easier on his car (no wheel wells or fenders) but more difficult on stock cars (through the wheel well, if I remember correctly). I was very small but fascinated back then and asked Dad about it years later.
It’s funny how we can find pictures of super modifieds on the Net, but they’re all pretty with curves. The were pretty hot rods, when they first appeared on a track. They didn’t really stay that way for long, though. Not long at all, before they were reduced to only wearing flat sheets of sheet metal here and there. Boxy looking things but really fast...and really dangerous.
Yes, newer cars run much longer. But scissor jacks are dangerous on busy highways, and flats do happen sometimes. I carry a fairly lightweight floor jack instead, just in case.
They need to bring bumper jacks back, Jack. ;)
Have 2010 Ford Fusion with 23,000 miles...
1979 Buick station wagon with 403 Olds engine-==218,000 miles.
1976 1 tin Chevy dually truck—Granny low 4 speed-454—has over 348,000 on the chassis.
Closer tolerances in assembly......
My ONLY brand new car was a 1965 Pontiac station wagon. Cost me $3434 out the door with registration & sales tax—everything.
I out OVER 444,000 miles on it before I sold it to a guy in Sweden who restored the EXTERIOR. Ran fine.
I didn’t mean to imply it never happened, just that it what was rare then is now more commonplace. It’s like flat tires. They still happen, I had one a couple of months ago, but they are no longer a big part of car use. On the other hand, the jacks supplied with today’s cars makes changing a flat a bit of a nightmare.
I have hydraulic jacks in both vehicles and in my 4 horse trailer. I won’t use a bumper jack or a scissor jack.
Top Dead Center...
Twin SU carbs on my 58 XK-150 roadster, synching those real pain...had metal brillo pad type air cleaner filters...efective for blocking medium size gravel, dust not so much.
The truck was in the family since new and I started messing with it while I was in high school to get it running again. So, over the next 10 years or so would tinker with it enough to fire up then drive it a bit around a field. Eventually I ended up with the truck through inheritance then hauled it around as my career had me moving around the US.
It came time to turn the truck over to someone that could put in the time and resources for a proper restoration and sold it to a volunteer fire department in West Texas.. Their crew restored it to a show truck to use in local parades. I was happy and they were happy.
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